In the past week, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick made a fatal blunder while attempting to prove that he both supports and works for the LGBT community. It's called consistency and honesty, and if recent news [...]
It takes all kinds, as my father says, and nowhere is that more true than politics. After all, politicians need voters and, arguably, voters need politicians. So if you want the people to vote for [...]
I usually don't read e-mail jokes that arrive unsolicited. (I enjoy doing my own solicitation, in a variety of subject areas, I might add. If you haven't been solicited by me - as yet - [...]
by John Corvino Back in the old days, there were those who supported gay rights and those who opposed them - vocally. There was also a third group whose opposition was so deep that they [...]
BIRMINGHAM - About 1,000 long, low lugubrious basset hounds will waddle through downtown Birmingham May 18 in the Great American Basset Waddle, Michigan Basset Rescue's largest annual fundraiser. People and their happy hounds will come [...]
By Michael H. Margolin SAUGATUCK - Searching a foreign country for fine art to sell in their gallery isn't without risks. Walter Petersen and Michael Tischleder, his partner in Saugatuck's Amazwi Contemporary Art, landed in [...]
"Come to think of it, I'm thrilled to be anywhere with high ratings these days." - George W. Bush makes a self-deprecating quip on "Deal or No Deal." He may not be my favorite person, [...]
By Christopher Cappiello From his chivalrous lawyer in "Enchanted" to the seemingly flawless McDreamy on "Grey's Anatomy," audiences are accustomed to seeing Patrick Dempsey as the nearly perfect guy - handsome, charming, thoughtful and committed. [...]
Grand Rapids Front Runners and Walkers 5-kilometer race and fitness walk will take place on June 1 at Riverside Park on Grand Rapids' northwest side. The Pride 5K is a celebration of LGBT pride - [...]
GRAND RAPIDS - Kindel Furniture Co. is holding a celebration and fundraiser event for ArtWorks, a summer internshop for students who create art projects for West Michigan communities, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. May 2. [...]
Dolly Parton. Mariah Carey. Andrew Lloyd Webber. Can season seven of "American Idol" be any gayer? Heck yes! By scooting a pretty-sure queer (top-10'er David Hernandez stripped! At a gay club!) and enlisting mentors whose [...]
NEW THIS WEEK: Baby Mama Kate (Tina Fey) is a successful organic grocery executive who learns she can't conceive a baby. Obsessed with being a mother, she turns to an expensive surrogacy service and is [...]
DETROIT - Although education is an accepted fact of life for most young people in the 21st century, recently-freed slaves in post-emancipation America were often still denied that basic right. But one brave group of [...]
BIRMINGHAM - Michiganders get to show how much they love art when Shain Park welcomes more than 100 artists from all over the country to the National City Birmingham Fine Art Festival, one of the [...]
By Jack Fertig Q Scopes Mercury going into his own sign, Gemini, sets minds and mouths a flutter. He immediately squares Saturn in Virgo and, quincunx to Pluto in Capricorn, points out limits and problems [...]
By Dana Rudolph Mombian Raising a child takes at least 18 years, though some would say it is a lifetime's work. Why, then, has television representation of LGBT families focused primarily on the initial stages [...]
By Dan Woog The OutField One of the joys of college sports is feeling part of a team. Sharing practice sessions, meals, and road trips draws athletes from different backgrounds together. The locker room becomes [...]
Q Puzzle Across 1 Key West storm prelude 5 Go lickety-split 10 "La ___ aux Folles" 14 Diva's piece 15 Score for Billy Bean 16 Cumming on "The L Word" 17 Actor Adams 18 Train [...]
DETROIT - Detroit's Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has named Brad Dick as his office's official liaison to the LGBT community. LGBT leaders said they are pleased with this development, and are glad that Detroit has joined [...]
Redford- The mentality of the day was "If at first you don't succeed, double your efforts." Last Sunday, over 70 protestors gathered at the Covenant Community Church of Redford for a second peaceful protest to [...]
HIGHLAND PARK - About 25 youth from the Ruth Ellis Center joined with an estimated 500,000 of their peers across the country Friday to take part in the National Day of Silence campaign. Wearing signs [...]
by Jessica Carreras DETROIT- When the acronyms "HIV" and "AIDS" are brought up, certain words come to mind: Men. Gay. Black. Africa. Addict. One word that is not often heard in association with HIV? Women. [...]
FERNDALE- Fifteen metro-Detroiters have been selected to serve on Affirmations' new Multicultural Advisory Committee. The committee is a pro-active step on the part of Affirmations Community Center to reduce racial disparities within the community and [...]
Democrat Sandi Smith has announced her candidacy for the Ann Arbor City Council in the 1st Ward, which covers much of downtown, as well as northern and northwestern Ann Arbor. Smith is challenging Councilmember Ron [...]
by Bob Roehr WASHINGTON, DC - After more than a decade and $1.3 billion dollars of funding, the U.S. Congress finally got around to holding its first hearing on abstinence only until marriage sex education [...]
by Bob Roehr The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) released its first round of endorsements and outlined plans to mobilize the LGBT vote in an April 28 conference call with reporters. Perhaps the most controversial aspect [...]
by Rex Wockner National News A bill to make Harvey Milk's birthday a state holiday passed the California Assembly's Education Committee April 23 in a 7-3 vote. If the measure clears both houses of the [...]
by Jessica Carreras This Saturday, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force will hold their 2008 D.C. Leadership Awards at the Marriot Wardman Park hotel, honoring several people and organizations in the LGBT community. The [...]
by Rex Wockner International News A 33-year-old MTF transsexual has become China's first post-op transsexual to go public about obtaining a new state identity card listing her new gender. Ying Ning, 33, of Tianjin told [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Colombia's Constitutional Court ruled that same-sex couples have the right to enroll in pension plans the same as married couples, El Tiempo reported April 17. "This is yet another incredible [...]
by Rex Wockner International News The Netherlands' Equal Treatment Commission ruled April 15 that marriage registrars who refuse to marry gay couples can't marry straight couples either, NIS News reported. The nonbinding decision came in [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Doctors and nurses at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City, Philippines, face lawsuits and probable penalties over a YouTube video that showed a medical extraction of an [...]
by Rex Wockner International News An Irish gay man who gave his sperm to a lesbian couple he was friends with so they could get pregnant has lost his case seeking guardianship of his two-year-old [...]
by Rex Wockner International News A gay journalists group has formed in Mumbai, India, to lobby for balanced treatment of gay issues in the media and entertainment industries. The Queer Media Collective kicked off its [...]
by Rex Wockner International News Uruguay's first civil union took place April 17, more than three months after Latin America's first national civil-union law came into force. Actor Adrian Figuera, 38, and theater director Juan [...]
In the past week, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick made a fatal blunder while attempting to prove that he both supports and works for the LGBT community. It's called consistency and honesty, and if recent news [...]
By Michael H. Margolin SAUGATUCK - Searching a foreign country for fine art to sell in their gallery isn't without risks. Walter Petersen and Michael Tischleder, his partner in Saugatuck's Amazwi Contemporary Art, landed in [...]
If professional wrestling is "the only innovative form of modern dance we have left," as one of the characters says in the comedy "Manuscript" that's now playing at Northville's Tipping Point Theatre, then the deep, [...]
By D. A. Blackburn Some 25 years ago, a project that began as a simple greeting card created by Dan Goggin came to life on stage. The years that followed have been marked by tremendous [...]
PROFESSIONAL THEATER/OPERA: Cobb A fascinating play that examines the life of one of the greatest baseball players of the 20th century: Ty Cobb. Planet Ant Theatre, Hamtramck. Thu.-Sun., May 2-24. $15. 313-365-4948. http://www.planetant.com The Compleat [...]
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